especially the dead. remember the same silence in new york after 9/11. i remember riding the subway up from downtown and the silence there. the silence that filled the air and spoke so loud. and so when we say let's have a moment of silence, that's just a way to tap into something that's already a part of us, a rt pa of the way we humans show something that's been done to us that deserves our respect for the part of us that's been taken from us. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. thanks, chris. thanks to you for tuning in. charged with terror. one week after the attacks at the boston marathon, the suspected bomber was charged with using weapons of mass destruction, a charge that could carry the death penalty. the complaint reveals new details about the attack, including how the suspect behaved at the moment of the

bombing. "the large crowd of people around him can be seen reacting to the first explosion. in apparent bewilderment and alarm. bomber two virtually alone among the individuals in the front of the restaurant appears calm." the suspect is reportedly awake and communicating with officials by writing things down. unable to speak because of apparent gunshot wounds to the head, neck, legs, and happened. today, the boston globe reports the younger brother may have actually killed his brother when he drove over him in that shootout with the police early friday morning. and late friday night, this police thermal video shows the suspect hiding on the boat later that night. members of the s.w.a.t. team who pulled him from that boat spoke just a few moments ago. >> when we first started moving up to the boat, he was laying on

the side of the boat. he was in and out of consciousness when we got to about 10, 15 yards from him. he sat back up. we moved from behind the shield cover and we pulled him down and put the cuffs on him. before we saw him, there was an exchange of gunfire. the boat does have fuel on it. we didn't know what he had on the boat with him as far as ieds, any kind of explosive devices, and we just moved in. >> today officials are also saying they think the brothers may have been planning more attacks. >> we have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene, the explosions, the explosive that was unexploded and the fire power that they had, they were going to i a tack other individuals. >> today, the people of boston observed a moment of silence for the victims starting at 2:50 p.m. when the first bomb

exploded. and a funeral was held today for 29-year-old krystle campbell, one of the three victims that died in the bombings. joining me now is michael isikoff, live in boston and jim cavanaugh, former atf special agent who led the investigations in to the atlanta olympic bombing and don clark, former agent in charge in houston. michael, let me go to you first. what jumps out at you from the fbi complaint filed today? >> reporter: well, actually, the passage describing the carjacking, a rather chilling account from the victim in which he was -- in which he describes

being in his car on a road in cambridge, one of the tsarnaev brothers, the affidavit is not clear which one, knocks on the window, he rolls down the window, that tsarnaev opens the door, gets in, brand dishes his gun, says did you hear about the boston explosion and then adds, i did that. a boast that he was the bomber and then shows him his gun, taking out the magazine, shows the bullet in it, puts the magazine back in and says, i'm serious. he then orders the carjacker to drive him to an atm machine, also to pick up his brother, then take over the car and eventually the car -- the victim is able to escape but that boast, i did that, was one of the more powerful elements in the complaint. >> so it was done as a boast,

not a confession, no remorse, no desperation as to why they need money, it's done as if he did it as a boast? >> that's certainly the way it reads in the complaint. and they seem to be -- this teams to come directly from the victim of the carjacking. now, there's lots of other evidence in there. the primary evidence they seem to be using to tie the younger tsarnaev to the bombing is the video surveillance evidence. >> right. >> but they also make it clear the ieds that were found, that were hurled from that car that night during the shootout matched the ieds used in the explosions, same pressure cooker type device and also something that struck me was the wounds that tsarnaev suffered. >> right. >> reporter: hand, neck, hands, throat, all bullet wounds. making it clear he's not in very

good shape. now, he did have his initial court appearance in the hospital today. and -- >> yeah, the judge came to him in the hospital. >> reporter: the judge came to him in the hospital, read him his rights which, by the way, makes the whole controversy over miranda rights now pretty much moot. he's been read his rights. he has a lawyer. so that -- that part of the controversy seems to be -- that part of the issue seems to be put aside at this moment. >> let me go to don, michael. when you read the complaint and it says about their homemade bombs, let's go back to what michael was just talking about in the ieds. the complaint says they threw at least two small improvised explosive devices, ieds, out of the car and intact low-grade device was discovered inside the car in addition from the scene

of the shootout. the fbi has recovered two unexploded ieds as well as the remnants of numerous exploded ieds. now, does this say to you, when we read numerous exploded ieds, does that support the idea that they planned more attacks to you, don? >> well, you know, al, i think right off the bat, when you look at this circumstance here, clearly this was a planned attack. it not only was a planned attack by the activities that they went about, but if you go back and look, years and months gone back at how these people operated and so on and so forth and we don't know all of the information that the law enforcement who, by the way, have done such a great job of putting this whole thing together, all of them, and i'd like to applaud them. nonetheless, that all is taking place and, yes, it was a planned attack. this wasn't anything by happenstance. you look at what we know now

about some of the weapons and some of the activities that these people have -- and we still don't know yet -- it hasn't come out to us yet what training that they had and where they may have gotten that training and to whom may have trained them. i think they have truly done a good job of bringing it to the attention. >> "the new york times" found an m-4 assault rifle on the boat where the young suspect was hiding. i mean, where does a teenager get a weapon like that? >> reverend al, he may have gotten it at a robbery. it seems to be unknown whether they were taken at a robbery or purchased in a back alley. it will be interesting to see how they acquired them. your question also about the explosives is very interesting but the thing that sticks out to me about the bombs that they

threw at the watertown police and transit police is that they had a third pressure cooker bomb and then they had these series of eight numerous ieds. they did not -- between the time their photograph was put out to the boston media and the time they carjacked that citizen make those bombs. >> right. >> they did not make those bombs. i've made a lot of bombs and shot a lot of bombs over 36 years and i'm telling you, they did not do that there. they scooped them up in their arms but they were already made in their apartment and ready to go. >> so that suggests to you that they were planning other attacks? >> yes. a pressure cooker bomb is not something you're going to throw at people. it's somewhere that you will plant somewhere. yes, i think they had other attacks. it was the beginning of a bombing campaign. >> now, let me ask you, michael, the behavior of the suspects. when you look at the fact that the complaint says in describing the suspect's behavior just

seconds before the explosion, he says he walks away without knapsack, approximately ten seconds later an explosion occurs in the location where the bomber two had -- which is the younger bomber, had placed his knapsack. now, does that mean that he was an amateur and put himself within ten seconds of being blown up or does it mean he was going to do a suicide bombing and he chickened out and left? i mean, isn't that cutting it very close, ten seconds? >> it >> reporter: it's cutting it very close but also there was a considerable amount of planning to this. in fact, the description of the way that the younger tsarnaev sort of calmly walks away after laying down a knapsack and when the bomb explodes and when everyone is running and looking, he doesn't blink at all.

that suggests a pretty cool customer and that's not the sort of behavior from somebody who has sort of put this together in a haphazard way. it sounds like people that have thought it through, calculated it through at exactly the right time. my guess is that they had been there several times, staking it out, doing surveillance, checking out exactly what the timing was and the route that they were going to escape, where they were going to go. all of that fits -- all of the indicate are tos here are of a very well planned attack. that does suggest -- >> go ahead, michael. >> reporter: i was just going to i sa, that y, that's certainly

consistent with somebody helping them plan it. that kind of well-calculated attack is consistent with somebody who -- with two people who had at least been consulting with somebody else about how to do this. we have no evidence, no proof of that. i'm just saying the circumstantial evidence here is something that the fbi would want to look at if there was somebody along those lines. >> well, there's a lot of questions. a lot of questions that we are just beginning to get to. michael isikoff, don clark, jim cavanaugh, thank you all for your time. coming up, we're learning more tonight about mounting evidence against suspect number two. will he get the death penalty? and how did the older brother become radicalized? new clues inside the family are sending off signals. and a very curious and early story coming out. two years ago, suspect one's close friend was found murdered in his apartment and it's

raising all kinds of questions. stay with us.

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suspect's home for his initial court appearance this afternoon. he was advised of his rights and charged with one count of using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and one count of malicious destruction of property resulting in death. the charges carry the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison. the public defender's office is representing the criminal and the evidence is laid out, including video of the suspect walking away from his backpack moments before the second explosion and evidence found in his dorm room. so how will a case against this alleged bomber be prosecuted? joining me now are former judge and prosecutor catherine krier and kelly curry, who supervised a number of terrorism krcases.

catherine, the evidence here seems overwhelming. do you think prosecutors will seek the death penalty? >> i think it's too early to tell and it ought to be too early to tell. massachusetts is not one of the states that has the death penalty and the federal government has been somewhat respectful in whether or not they seek that particular in this circumstance. we have a 19-year-old, we don't know who was leading who, what other involvement. so it's too early to answer that question. >> now, let me ask you, kelly, "the new york times" reported at the brefiiefing today in the suspect's hospital room. "the brief bedside proceeding began when judge bowler asked a

doctor whether dzhokhar tsarnaev was alert. the judge told the doctor, you can rouse him. he knots affirmatively, according to the transcript, the first of four times during the proceeding which in addition to the judge and the doctor was attended by two federal prosecutors, the two public defenders, the judge, and a court reporter. how unusual is it to have a judge go to the suspect's hospital? >> you know, reverend, i was a prosecutor for nearly a dozen years. i don't think i saw it once. >> really? >> it's extraordinary and it sort of demonstrates the importance of starting the judicial process off on the right foot and they want to do things the right way. >> now, in the criminal complaint released today we learn the fbi seized a white hat and white jacket of the same

general appearance worn by bomber two, catherine. he also seized a lot of other evidence. seems like they have a lot to go with. >> and it's one of the reasons why we're talking about the miranda issue and large repercussions when we're discussing that. this case is not going to turn on a confession by this particular suspect, i don't believe. he is certainly presumed innocent at this point in time but it looks like the government has quite substantive evidence setting aside any remarks that the individual has made, the comments that he may or may not make about other involvement, his brother's involvement are much more important to them than an admission that might be admissible at the trial. >> there's been a controversy around the miranda rights not being read to him and whether that will come back to haunt the prosecution at trial if in fact there's a trial and no pleading of guilty, kelly. then we understand his rights

were read to him today at the hearing with the judge and michael isikoff just said that makes the issue moot. do you feel as a prosecutor for almost a dozen years that the issue is moot and does the fact that they just read him his rights now affect anything? >> well, to the extent he was able to communicate at all before the court appearance and before his rights were read to him, that means that particular issue is still relevant and still alive. it's not clear -- and i don't think we understand what information was obtained in that. i would assume that the defense will try to exclude that evidence if the government seeks to introduce it. but as you suggest, given the apparent strength of this case, it may be that the government won't try to seek to introduce that evidence at any trial against him. that would render -- >> and he couldn't talk. everything was in writing. so it's probably very limited anyway. >> reverend, it's important though, we're narrowly focused

on this horrific event but the miranda issue and many others are so much greater. today congressman peter king made a comment and he senator graham and mccain have wanted to call him as an enemy combatant. america is the battleground and when anyone is inside the united states engaging in terrorist acts, that they should not be given the privilege of a civilian trial. he said anyone, including citizens of this country. we need to understand that the debate is not so much about this individual, miranda in this case, enemy combatant in this case. it is that, once again, like post- 9/11, the patriots act, now it's the time that we have to take that deep breath and say, backing off of this sort of talk is not protecting this individual. it's protecting our

constitutional rights and the tenants of this system. and we need to keep that in mind. we hear nonsense like america's a battlefield so even for u.s. citizens we can throw it all out the window from here going forward because of sudden nebulous war on terror. >> that's the debate, kelly. you've done terrorism cases. when you have senators like lindsey graham saying that the suspect should be tried as an enemy combatant and then "the new york times" comes back with an editorial -- "mr. graham's reckless statement makes a mockery of the superb civilian police work that led to the suspect's capture, starting with the skillful analysis of the video recordings of the marathon. there is no reason that the lawyers and courts cannot continue to do their work." what do thou sayeth, kelly.

>> they have a long history of prosecuting terrorism cases before and after 9/11. i think it's important when we are talking about a united states citizen where the conduct is principally here in the united states. i think the administration got it just right here. >> he a i see you nodding. >> i would second bet in the conversation that's going on right now, exacerbating fears in this country. terrorists aren't going after territory. they are going after the creation of fear, panic, and disruption of the system. we allow them to rip apart our constitution and they win. >> catherine crier and kelly cu ar rrie, thank you for your time tonight. a friend is describing the drastic turn his life took. and authorities want to hear from his wife. how did she turn so quickly to a

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read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. people who knew tamerlan tsarnaev say his life took a radical turn. a friend described it, quote, as dramatic. he and his younger brother were once known for throwing loud parties. he was a promising boxer with olympic aspirations. but that all changed when tamerlan became deeply religious. he gave up the sport, citing his muslim faith. his father was furious. he grew confrontational. he angrily disrupted a talk at a cam bridge mosque when the speaker compared the prophet

hohammed and the peace activist compared him to martin luther king and tsarnaev also interrupted a tack last november when a speaker said it was fine to celebrate the safe way as the birthday of the prophet. the growing interest of religion by both tamerlan and his mother caused an upheaval in the household with tamerlan even persuading his mother to cover herself up. and so why the schachange? and did his trip to russia play a role in radicalizing this young man? joining me now is brian bender, national security reporter for the boston globe and clint van zandt. clint, what would you think would have caused such a dramatic shift? >> i think there's a number of things we're probably going to find out in the 26-year-old

brother's life, al. i think that he had a confrontation with a former girlfriend. she accused him of assault. he was arrested for that. that may have been the basis why he, unlike his brother, was denied citizenship. he was denied the opportunity to box for the united states in the olympics. i think there were a number of things in his life that really didn't go his way and like a cult in some cases or sometimes a religion or the way it's presented for others, there are individuals that will embrace you, bring you in, tell you you're a good person, give you an a philosophy on religion and then maybe turn you into a bomber. >> but when you look at this, brian, the fact is he was always -- his family was always

muslim and like any religion you can have people that become extremist because obviously everyone in islam did not hold the same views if he heckled people in the mosque, they were certainly saying things more moderate than he had turned to and clearly his father who was a muslim was furious at him. so what would make him go all the way to an extreme that religion alone does not represent that? >> no. i mean, i think -- i talked to somebody today, a counterterrorism official. they said their working they'or is case like this where an individual wanted to do lots of things here in america as an immigrant that weren't going his way. they start to identify with his islamic brothers overseas that they feel are being mistreated

by the united states and the west and the personal anger that builds up inside them has to manifest itself somehow. there are signs at this point -- we don't know for sure -- that that's what happened. he lashed out at the united states and the country that he had come to as an early teenager and just didn't feel like he was assimilated, that he was accepted it, that he was making it. >> you talked to people in the mosque that he attended in the boston area. what did they tell you, brian? >> well, as the boston globe reported, he even stuck out in the mosque, as you pointed out. he was espousing things that were quite radical. at one point he was shouted down and basically forced to leave the mouse being. >> shouted down by members of the mosque? >> exactly. by fellow members of the congregation. he had basically shouted down an a amom, basically calling him an unbeliever, some of the things that he said about dr. king and

the prophet mohammed, saying that he was a nonbeliever and shouldn't be leaving the congregation and the rest of ththe them didn't like that and he was forced to leave. >> his uncle says it wasn't the religion, it was the radicalization. listen to the uncle. >> it wasn't devotion. it was something as it's called being radicalized. i called one of the who is private to the family and i said, are you aware who might be possibly influencing him? is it his mother or what is it? and they said there is someone who brainwashed him, some newly convert to islam. >> brainwashed, newly convert who in the uncle's mind

distorted the religion. clint? >> well, that happens in all religion, too, al. not just in radical islam fund meant talism. but look at david korsesh who preached and yet did the te terrible tings things that he did. anyone can take the good concepts of a religion and turn that into something that gives them the right to commit murder and mayhem. >> no doubt about it. brian, thank you for your time. clint, stay with me. there is also new questions surrounding tamerlan's wife. federal authorities are asking to speak with her by all accounts before she met the suspect, katherine russell was an all-american girl. she attended suffolk university in boston, she dreamed of joining the peace corps, but that changed in 2008 or 2009

after being introduced to tamerlan at a nightclub. the two dated off and on. they later married, they had a daughter together who is now 3. russell was raised christian but converted to islam, by many accounts, after marrying tamerlan. katherine russell cut ties with all of her friends after that. cbs news says none of their old friends attended the wedding. the federal authorities are still waiting to talk to her and the questions are mounting. what did she know? and did she see any signs? let's bring in anna, wnyc reporter who spoke with katherine russell's roommate at suffolk university. anna, thank you, first of all, for coming on the show. >> of course. thank you for having me. >> how did the roommate describe tamerlan? >> she described him as kind of -- she didn't have a good feeling around him.

she met him along with her freshman roommate. they were the group of russians. they would go out and buy things for them. and then katherine russell started dating tamerlan and at some point the woman i talked to just started to feel like maybe this isn't a guy i want to hang around. she described him as very charismatic but also controlling. he seemed to have multiple faces. she had a bad feeling. >> it seems like tamerlan had quite a power over russell. and i'm reading where it says they got back together although her friends warned against it. the friend you spoke with says her roommate eventually started wearing a head scarf and began practicing islam. >> that's right. what ashley told me was, they broke up, get back together and her friends at suffolk university warned against it, didn't think it was a good idea, and so it sounds more like a controlling relationship, that this woman katherine russell began seeing this guy and became

alien nated from her friends and then ashley described she started wearing a head scarf and they were no longer in touch but talked last in 2011 at which point katherine russell said they got married in a city hall wedding, converted to islam, and was considering changing her name. >> clint, does any of this tell you about this suspect number one? >> well, it tells us a number of things, al. number one, people ask, how could he have gotten his younger brother to come on board and to do this when none of these traits attributed to the 26-year-old do we hear attributed to the 19-year-old. but as you well know, there were three sets of brothers counted among the 9/11 hijackers. so there's something within the brother relationship. also, in this husband-wife, we can look at u.s. examples like dennis radar, the btk serial

killer in wichita, robert hanson, the fbi agent turned soviet spy. we talked to both of their wives, they knew nothing, had no yg. many time there's one spouse that doesn't want to hear, doesn't wa to sent to see, they the marriage to work. >> do you think he was the kind of person that would confide anything in his wife? >> i don't think so. i don't think so at all. i think this guy -- i think he wore a mask and very few people saw under that mask. and especially these trips back and ford and radical lradicaliz. i think his wife was overwhelmed but what she saw and didn't know how to report. >> new details, while russell

was at work, her husband cared for the toddler and the last day he was alive last week, he was home with the daughter while his wife left for work. so he actually was home with the little 3-year-old the day he died. >> that's what the associated press is reporting. my reporting basically showed that katherine russell was very much alienated from not only her friends at suffolk university but ashley talked about calling her mother and trying to find out where she was and it seems like she wasn't in close touch with her family all the time. it sounds like ckatherine russel was isolated from her former support system. >> how did her friends feel when they found out that she married him? >> when she arrived as a freshman, she was an atheist?

didn't want to get married, described a quick transformation as the relationship progressed. >> clint van zandt and anna sale, thank you both for your time this evening. >> thank you. coming up, suspect one's good friend murdered two years ago, stabbed to death. it has prosecutors going back over the case. we hear what friends are saying next. if rz ♪ the trucks are going farther. the 2013 ram 1500 with best-in-class fuel economy. engineered to move heaven and earth. guts. glory. ram. the new ram 1500. motor trend's 2013 truck of the year.

. a triple murder two years ago just outside of boston.

one of the victims? suspect one's boxing friends. news on that today next.

new questions tonight about whether the bombing suspect who died in that shootout with the police is linked to another horrific crime two years earlier. prosecutors are looking at a murder from 2011 where the victims included a man that the bombing suspect reportedly once called his best friend. >> at this early hour, three people found dead inside of an apartment. >> this crime was not random. they are looking for two assailants. >> the victims, men all in their late 20s or 30s were stabbed to death. >> there was a girl running out of the house saying there's blood everywhere and there's

like marijuana all over the bodies apparently. >> the murder of the three men has never been solved. the district attorney at the time called it a targeted killing. >> it does look leak the assailants and the descedents did know each other. we have no evidence of a break in the apartment. we know there were at least two people who were not in that apartment now who were there earlier. >> after the older brother's role in the bombing surfaced, his former friends began wondering if he had any role in this other earlier crime. those murders happened just hours after the ten-year anniversary of september 11th. joining me now is rosie of buzz feed. thanks for being here, rosie. >> thank you for having me. >> now, rosie, the d.a.'s office

is saying, "we are eager to pursue any new leads of information. it has been reported he knew one of the deceased victims. it remains an open and active investigation." now, when did the older friends start thinking about him in connection with these earlier murders? >> i don't think they were suspicious of him when the murders happened. i think it started rising among this group of friends in the last week or so now that they've learned that he's a suspect or that he was a suspect in the bombings. >> now, the owner of the gym where the suspect used to train said he introduced one of the three that was killed brendan as his best friend. we also know that the murder was gruesome. the victims were stabbed in the neck with an ice pick or a knife and that it was not a robbery because $5,000 was left at the crime scene and the bodies were covered with marijuana. but here's where something -- and, of course, none of this do

we know is any hard evidence or charges that this suspect number one was involved in the murder but what starts raising eyebrows is that we're told that the suspect did not attend the funeral of his best friend, a mutual friend told reporters "he was somebody who was in contact with brendan on a daily basis. anybody like that, you would think they would have been around. tam wasn't there at the memorial service, he wasn't at the funeral, he wasn't around at all and he was really close to brendan. that's why it's so weird." that's from your article, rosie. >> yeah. and i think it's certainly obviously is strange if tam was indeed best friends with brendan, which is what i've heard from more than one person, for him to actually not come to the funeral. that raises some eyebrows and i think -- what i've heard is that they were all too emotional at

the time to really zone in on that fact and now that they have heard about these new developments with tamerlan, they've looked back at that time and sort of put the pieces together and come to their own conclusions. >> now, did you get any idea from talking to them that they feel he was capable of something that gruesome? >> i don't think any of them thought that at the time of the murder. i mean, he was described to me as a normal guy. he had friends at the boxing gym, he was good friends with this guy brendan. but if you look at tamerlan's past, there were a few incidents, obviously, of anger and flaring up, anger flaring up at the mosque and i do think that those are some other pieces of evidence that the friends have put together now that the bombing allegations have been made. but i don't think any of them thought of him as a particularly violent person, no.

>> let me raise this to you. we know that tamerlan was quoted and told someone in 2010, "i don't have a single american friend. i don't understand them." isn't that a strange statement when he seemed very close to brendan, one of the three that was killed, and had introduced brendan as his best friend to the owner of the gym he did his boxing workouts at? >> it is strange. one of the former friends of tamerlan told me he thought that was a very strange quote considering the fact that he was said to be in constant contact with brendan. he knew brendan's little brother. he hung out at the gym. by all accounts, up until a couple years ago, tamerlan seemed like a pretty normal, regular guy. >> very interesting. we'll continue to follow this and we'll see where the d.a. goes, if anywhere, on the triple murder back in 2011.

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finally tonight, a city healing. one week after the tragedy, the people of boston observed a moment of silence for the victims starting at 2:50 p.m. when the first bomb exploded. and tributes continue to pour in. at the london marathon, this banner said, "run if you can, walk if you must, but finish for boston" and at the bruins game, players gave the jerseys off their backs to the first responders and neil diamond made a surprise appearance to sing a

fenway park tradition. ♪ sweet caroline good times never seem so good ♪ ♪ i've been inclined ♪ to believe they never would >> after the game, the red sox signed special uniforms with boston on it to be signed off and auctioned off for the relief fund. and from sweet caroline to sweet stories of inspiration, like adrian hasler davis, she was at the marathon with her husband, an air force captain on leave from afghanistan and she lost her foot in the second blast but she is resilient. she's resilient telling the boston herald, "i'll dance

again. and next year, though i've never been a runner, yes, i plan to run the marathon." that's what boston strong really means, the kind of perseverance that should inspire all of us. the kind of determination that is helping boston heal. if you would like to help, go to onefundboston.org. all of the information is there and it's linked to our "politicsnation" facebook page. a week ago tonight i ended the first show after the bombing talking about the bombing. a week later, we are just beginning to put some of the pieces together that led to this. it will take time before we know a lot more. we may never know it all. but one thing we should know is how we